by lpetrich
Fremont's Innovation Center coming into view, as Warm Springs BART station on track for late 2015 - San Jose Mercury News -- fall 2015, to be precise.
Photos from Warm Springs/South Fremont BART station under construction
Just below the roof is a strip of horizontally-alternating transparent and stained-glass windows. The stained-glass windows show what look like sunsets. This is similar in theme to the artwork planned for the glass cylinder above the escalators at the parking-lot end of the passenger walkway (Warm Springs Extension Art Program | bart.gov). It's called "Sky Cycles", and the concept picture shows lots of puffy clouds.
Construction Camera: BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT shows the station along its track-direction axis, which makes it difficult to see those stained glass windows. But the camera shows the parking lots near the station, an a rather large expanse of them at that. They are now under construction. Some transit advocates have criticized those parking lots and the parking garages that BART has built at some stations as conceding too much to car users, but I think that they are a reasonable compromise.
Just south of the Fremont station, most of the falsework (deck molds and supporting structures) is now gone and the west-side span has been lowered into place. Though the station-side walled embankment is almost filled, there is still a lot of construction machinery there.
VTA Says BART To San Jose Will Open In 2017 Despite Judge’s Ruling « CBS San Francisco, VTA officials say planned BART extension to San Jose to open by 2017 despite court ruling | abc7news.com
The problem is with construction at Dixon Landing Road. The BART line will run in a trench underneath that road, though the nearby UP line will stay at surface level. The VTA wanted to shut down that road for 8 months for building the BART trench, but Milpitas city officials objected and the judge agreed. Two lanes have now been shut down, and only two lanes will be shut down at a time, extending the trench construction time to about 18 months. But VTA officials expect the trench to be done in time for a 2017 opening.
Fremont officials, however, had let the VTA close Kato Road for 11 months and Warren Avenue for a year to build grade separations there.
This 10-mile route will get 11 grade separations. It costs $2.3 billion, and the rest of the San Jose extension will cost $6.4 billion. Though that part will be only 6.1 miles long, 5 miles of it will be in tunnels underneath downtown San Jose. VTA has bought the land for it, and awaits complete funding to start it.
Photos from Warm Springs/South Fremont BART station under construction
Just below the roof is a strip of horizontally-alternating transparent and stained-glass windows. The stained-glass windows show what look like sunsets. This is similar in theme to the artwork planned for the glass cylinder above the escalators at the parking-lot end of the passenger walkway (Warm Springs Extension Art Program | bart.gov). It's called "Sky Cycles", and the concept picture shows lots of puffy clouds.
Construction Camera: BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT shows the station along its track-direction axis, which makes it difficult to see those stained glass windows. But the camera shows the parking lots near the station, an a rather large expanse of them at that. They are now under construction. Some transit advocates have criticized those parking lots and the parking garages that BART has built at some stations as conceding too much to car users, but I think that they are a reasonable compromise.
Just south of the Fremont station, most of the falsework (deck molds and supporting structures) is now gone and the west-side span has been lowered into place. Though the station-side walled embankment is almost filled, there is still a lot of construction machinery there.
VTA Says BART To San Jose Will Open In 2017 Despite Judge’s Ruling « CBS San Francisco, VTA officials say planned BART extension to San Jose to open by 2017 despite court ruling | abc7news.com
The problem is with construction at Dixon Landing Road. The BART line will run in a trench underneath that road, though the nearby UP line will stay at surface level. The VTA wanted to shut down that road for 8 months for building the BART trench, but Milpitas city officials objected and the judge agreed. Two lanes have now been shut down, and only two lanes will be shut down at a time, extending the trench construction time to about 18 months. But VTA officials expect the trench to be done in time for a 2017 opening.
Fremont officials, however, had let the VTA close Kato Road for 11 months and Warren Avenue for a year to build grade separations there.
This 10-mile route will get 11 grade separations. It costs $2.3 billion, and the rest of the San Jose extension will cost $6.4 billion. Though that part will be only 6.1 miles long, 5 miles of it will be in tunnels underneath downtown San Jose. VTA has bought the land for it, and awaits complete funding to start it.